UK hits 100F for first time
10-08-2003, 21:40
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Just goes to show how screwed up the world is getting!
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10-08-2003, 21:46
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Originally posted by Cantona
It was like that on the A59 near Gisburn (Lancashire) at 9am this morning.
We were walking around a nearby car boot sale (there was a bit of mist in the air), then suddenly it went black (and I mean black) and it started to throw it down. We ran back to the car, and then the heavens really did open - it was the worst weather I have experienced in my life. You couldn't even see 1 yard in front of you. Cars were pulling over it was that bad, but we just carried on very slowly with our hazard warning lights on (10mph on a 60mph road!), and eventually we drove out of the weather.
I can honestly say it resembled being in a tornado, the worst severe flash floods I have ever seen. I wish I had my camera to take a photo, because words cannot adequately describe what it was like.
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much the same here mate , did you have the hailstones as well ?????????
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10-08-2003, 22:22
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I live just down the road from Gravesend ( allegedly the hottest place in the country) and the temp here was 47degs in the sun  and 39 in the shade. So I dont know where they got their figures from....
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10-08-2003, 22:56
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All this officiallly announced numbers are crap..... I am not sure how they measure it. I m sure it was more than 38.1.....like i said my car said it was 39 outside too on the A289 with one other care on the road so it was pretty accurate.
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10-08-2003, 23:02
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Originally posted by TigaSefi
All this officiallly announced numbers are crap..... I am not sure how they measure it. I m sure it was more than 38.1.....like i said my car said it was 39 outside too on the A289 with one other care on the road so it was pretty accurate.
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I would imagine with a calibrated very accurate thermormeter, in very precisely laid out surroudings, so measurements can be compared against each other. I don't think your car thermo qualifies as such.
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10-08-2003, 23:02
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Its raining and Thundering here and has been for the past 5 hours or more in Northampton
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10-08-2003, 23:57
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I don't think your car thermo qualifies as such
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almost certainly not - since it also seems to be affected by the number of cars on the road as well as temperature
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on the A289 with one other care on the road so it was pretty accurate
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11-08-2003, 01:19
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Originally posted by danielf
I would imagine with a calibrated very accurate thermormeter, in very precisely laid out surroudings, so measurements can be compared against each other. I don't think your car thermo qualifies as such.
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I am sure I read somewhere that the temperature is recorded by a "mean average" reading i.e. taken from several points, then added together and then divided by the number of readings over a certain time period, hence that in some places it will be hotter and in some places it will be cooler, and there was an equation which I can't remember.
I am sure I will be corrected on this, anyway as far as I am concerned, it has been bloody hot 
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11-08-2003, 01:29
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It's been really hot down here in Pompey. I've had all the doors and windows open most of the day. Fans going full blast. And it's still hot now so I won't be sleeping much tonight no doubt.  
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11-08-2003, 01:55
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Originally posted by allanprg
And it's still hot now so I won't be sleeping much tonight no doubt.
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Me Either 
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11-08-2003, 02:36
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Originally posted by yesman
Me Either
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wimps its not that hot 
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11-08-2003, 06:23
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Aw what's this!?!! You get a little bit of warm sunshine and you guys start moaning about dying?
Tsk tsk.
Go to your rooms.
:p :p
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11-08-2003, 09:28
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lol innit... i slept like a log last night in London just fine....hellishly humid this morning. No sign of the rains yet.
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11-08-2003, 09:30
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It's been hammering down in South Wales this morning, cleared up about 10 minutes ago though.
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